How Blizzard Ruined Shadow Priests

I have an evil evil plot in the works that I did not get to finish last night…TOMORROW, you shall behold my evil. Until then, I’m just going to talk about how I am a silly magpie, and how Blizzard nearly ruined shadow priesting for me.

You see, I’m not really….girly. But I do like things that are bright and shiny, so spells like penance and holy nova are Awesome Fun Toys. In hindsight, paladins have some of the most disappointing spells EVER. I mean, okay, Sacred Shield can be kind of shiny, but shouldn’t beacon be a BEACON? You know? A BEACON OF LIGHT? A BRIGHT SHINING PILLAR OF LIGHT?

I’ll never forgive Blizzard for failing me in that regard, just as I’ll never forgive them for what they did to my favorite Shadow Priest toy right next to Mind Sear.

THEY RUINED DISPERSION. It used to be that you’d turn into a FUN LITTLE BALL OF DARKNESS!!!!!! Now you’re just…er…more…dark? What?

NO, BLIZZARD.

UTTER FAIL.

I can’t be a bouncing ball of inky evilness now! This has totally ruined the spell and thus ALMOST RUINED SHADOW PRIESTING for me.

Don’t you DARE mess with my mind sear, or I’m going to have to do something drastic like…GO HOLY for my second spec, and we don’t want THAT to happen ever again.

I’ve long advocated a graphical change to the target circle that appears on the ground to include a pointer to indicate facing direction. Would be nice in a 25-man where there is so much chaos that it is hard to discern which way a mob is facing – and it would also be able to show which way a “bouncing ball of inky evilness” was pointing, too.

Nah, you just tweeted about it and I was bored and saw that it was about the Dispersion changes and they pissed me off too and by the way did I mention FUCK ARENA AND FUCK PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATE IT AND RUIN THIS FUCKING GAME?

I actually didn’t like the original dispersion graphic. (Not sure what this one looks like yet though, maybe its worse)
Iirc casting it made your character’s height change and the camera adjusted slightly because of that. I might be wrong about that though; my memory is pretty fuzzy about shadow priesting.

And theoretically, on rare occasions, we also have an @Orithea! On less rare and more wordy occasions, we also have a James. Who does not have a Twitter because he is fail? Anyway, there had to be some bubbles in this blog somewhere.